Absolutely, yes - in those days before the internet it was far worse than it is now in some ways. Back then police could be used to brutalise large numbers of people who dissented with little or no evidence being recorded that it had occurred. Many terrible evils are completely unrecorded in the human story. While I accept there are major problems with our reliance on technology, it fills some gaps for now which must be filled as a matter of survival as we pull ourselves back together as on into wholeness.